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Yasmine Cafasso
There are two main options for viewing the Balloon Fiesta: getting up close and personal with the balloons at the balloon field, or finding a vantage point elsewhere around Albuquerque where you can watch the balloons flying from afar. I truly love both! So it really depends on what priorities you have for your family photos.
My best recommendation for taking family pictures at the Balloon Fiesta park is to plan them during the evening Balloon Glow events. During the Glow, the balloons inflate at sunset but stay grounded. This makes it super easy to walk among the balloons and get up close, without worrying about your balloon background just taking off in the middle of your photo op. The sunset golden hour is an added perk and just lovely for portraits.
During the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta this year, the local TV station covering the morning event did a quick "man-on-the-street" interview with one of the photographers snapping away at all the hot air balloons. Turns out he makes bookmarks out of his photos. He said that the majority of his time is spent contacting all the owners of the hot air balloons and getting their permission to use their balloon's images on his bookmarks. This surprised me since these balloons float all over town and certainly qualify as being in public places with no real expectation of privacy. It's well known and understood that one of the main activities at this balloon fiesta is taking pictures of all the balloons.
I asked about this at the gift counter at the fiesta, and the people working there claimed that the owners have "copyright on their balloon designs" and you need permission if you're going to sell photos of their balloons, but only if you're planning on selling.
So, are these people correct? Would someone really need to get permission from balloon owners to use images of their hot air balloons, taken in public floating over town, in bookmarks or cards that a photographer was planning on selling to the public?
In the hot-air balloon thing, I think it would fall somewhere between fair use and derivative works. This means that there certainly is the potential for trouble, especially regarding photos that prominently feature the design on some particular balloon, and especially if they're used for commercial purposes. Therefore, getting permission is certainly the smart thing to do.
In this image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, a U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot looks down at a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovers over the United States on Feb. 3, 2023. (Department of Defense via AP)
The balloon was downed on Feb. 4 by an F-22 fighter jet firing a AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. The strike took place once the balloon was no longer over land but was still within U.S. territorial waters.
The Pentagon announced last Friday that Navy ships and submersibles had completed recovery of the massive balloon and its payload, which fell in pieces into the Atlantic Ocean. The payload was recovered from the ocean floor and is being analyzed by the FBI, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Wednesday.
The balloons inflated and glittered as the sun set, alternating between full burns, where all pilots lit their burners at once, and a twinkle, when pilots alternated pulling burners to stagger the lights.
The U.S. Department of Defense released an image on Wednesday (Feb. 22) taken from the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane as it flew over the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that floated over the United States earlier this month. According to the caption that accompanies the image, the photograph was taken on Feb. 3 over the continental United States.
In the image, the Air Force pilot's helmet and pressurized suit can be seen in the foreground, while the balloon is visible off the starboard wingtip of the U-2 "Dragon Lady" spy plane. (U-2 pilots wear pressure suits to offer protection in the event of a loss of cabin pressure at the high altitudes at which the aircraft is capable of flying.)
Solar panel arrays hanging from the balloon can be seen in the image, as can several other details including what appears to be a large white antenna in the center of the payload. A number of other pieces of equipment can be seen, but it's unclear exactly what they might be. The Department of Defense previously stated that the balloon had the ability to maneuver, so it's possible that some of the equipment are propellers.
In addition to offering a clear look at the balloon's payload, the image of the balloon contained enough of a view of the terrain beneath the U-2 for Twitter users to geolocate where the image was taken. According to one analysis posted on Wednesday (Feb. 22) by Twitter user @obretix, the image appears to have been taken roughly 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of St. Louis, Missouri near the city of Bellflower.
Others have used the image to estimate the size of the balloon. According to a Feb. 22 tweet from University of Texas at San Antonio aerodynamics professor Dr. Chris Combs, the shadow of the U-2 on the balloon's envelope should correspond to its actual size. Since the U-2 is 65 feet (20 meters) in length, the balloon would appear to be roughly 130 feet (40 meters) in diameter as previously estimated by the Pentagon.
In the days that followed, U.S. Air Force aircraft shot down three additional "objects," at least one of which appears to have been a harmless research balloon. In the furor that followed, the Pentagon was compelled to issue a statement asserting there is no evidence any of the objects were an "indication of aliens or other extraterrestrial activity."
SPIDER launched from McMurdo Station's Long-Duration Balloon Facility on the morning of December 22, 2022. It was McMurdo's only balloon mission launched this austral summer season and the first launch from the facility in three years.
Operated by NASA with support from the U.S. Antarctic Program, the Long-Duration Balloon Facility uses enormous helium balloons to lift instruments into Earth's stratosphere. It's a way of launching payloads into near space without the use of a rocket. The balloon-borne instruments fly at around 120,000 feet (36.5 km) and stay aloft for 10 to 20 days on average, allowing scientists to study the sun, the universe, and the space environment.
McMurdo Station is an ideal place from which to launch long-duration balloons. During the austral summer, air currents in the upper atmosphere keep balloons on a roughly circular trajectory over Antarctica, preventing them from going out to sea. This means instruments can fly around the continent several times (if winds allow) and the payload can be recovered when the flight is over.
Once the right weather conditions lined up, the balloon and payload were launched on Thursday, December 22. The balloon, filled with millions of liters of helium gas, carried SPIDER upward to the stratosphere in a matter of hours. At that altitude, the balloon expands to 34 million cubic feet - big enough to encompass an entire football stadium.
SPIDER's balloon flew westward around the Antarctic continent for 16 days, then was brought down on January 7. The balloon and payload landed at Hercules Dome, a spot roughly 270 miles from the geographic South Pole between East and West Antarctica. U.S. Antarctic Program support staff recovered the SPIDER payload and hard drives that recorded its data in January. Once the drives return to the United States, researchers can begin analyzing data from the flight.
Balloons fascinate everyone, including adults. Every child loves playing with balloons, but most of the time, they get scared when the balloon bursts. But do you know that a bursting balloon looks beautiful and you can make extraordinary images of when it happens? In this tutorial, I will teach you how to do popping water balloon photography using a sound trigger with your camera.
Balloons can be shoot in different ways: you can fill balloons with different color water, take different shots and merge the images in one and make a rainbow; you can put a hat or sunglasses on a water-filled balloon and burst it; you can add talcum powder in a balloon and burst it; you can burst an air-filled balloon with an arrow or a dart; possibilities are endless.
First, you'll need balloons, and you'll need a lot. Buy some packs of medium size balloons. If you want to show only the shape of water and don't want to show the balloon, use the same color balloons as your background so that pieces of balloons merge with the background, and you'll get a clean photo. I used black balloons because I had a black background. If you want to show balloons too, use a different color balloon than your background.
Next, you need a camera, lens, and a tripod; it's advisable to use a 50mm to 100mm focal length lens, so your camera is far enough from balloons and safe from splashes. You need two flashes and a sound trigger like MIPOS Smart+ to trigger the camera.
Now set your camera on a tripod with a medium lens so your camera will be far from the balloons and can be safe from water or color splashes. Place two flashes at a forty-five-degree angle on both sides of the balloons, set the flash to 1/32 or less, and make sure you cover your flashes with plastic bags.
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